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EtsyBloggers Carnival June 22 Edition

For this carnival I prompted people to write about either their birthdays because mine is tomorrow (yay!!) or summer because it's finally here. Thanks so much for participating in this team activity...

Welcome to the June 22, 2009 edition of etsybloggers.

Summer Raven presents A Summer Solstic Birthday Suprise posted at Goddess Adornments.

Amy presents The Lazy Days of Summer posted at Motley Boutique - a handmade mixture.

julie marriott presents Blog Carnival Topic- B-day posted at Welcome To My World.

Kathy Johnston (Cozy) presents In A Funk and Determined to Get Over It posted at A Cozy Life.

Trina Baker presents Etsy Blog Carnival » gallery32 posted at gallery32.

Two Zany Zebras presents Getting into the swing of summer posted at Two Zany Zebras.

Angie A presents Angie's Crafts & Scrapbook Stuff: Etsybloggers June Carnival & Featured Artist! posted at Angie's Crafts & Scrapbook Stuff.

Rainy presents Summer Blog Carnival posted at RainyDayArt.

cupcakedalink presents June Symbols for the Etsy Bloggers Carnival posted at Cupcakedalink's Etsy Blog!.

BeadedTail presents Summertime! posted at beadedtail.

kuartzo presents kuartzo | shop: | Etsy Bloggers Team | 19 June Blog Carnival posted at kuartzo | shop.

cardsbyjenna presents Cards By Jenna: ~Happy Summer~ posted at Cards By Jenna.

Lois presents Monday Morning Musings posted at Foxy G's Den of i-KNIT-quity.

Karen aka MysticWynd presents Sonoran Desert Summer or "It's a Dry Heat(???)" posted at Mystic Wynd.

Becky presents Summer in My Neighborhood. posted at The Fab Miss B

Patti presents S.........ummertime and the livin' is easy in Kohler! posted at peacoxcreations.

Rose Works Jewelry presents Summer Time Sun! posted at A Jedi's Musings.

UberArt presents Summer Time! posted at UberArt Shop.

Vanessa presents Summer Loves posted at Designs by Vanessa.

Lily Wrey presents Tulips Talking: etsyBloggers June 19th Blog Carnival "BIRTHDAYS" posted at TuLips Talking.

Sumiko Shop presents Blog Carnival: Summer !! posted at Sumiko*Handmade Creations*.

BunnyKissd presents BlogCarnival: Summer Edition! posted at Diary of a Crazy Rabbit Lady, Too.

storybeader presents Etsybloggers Carnival - June 19, 2009 posted at Stroll Through Storyland.

Laurie Jackson presents Full Speed Ahead to Summer! posted at Indulge Your Shelf

Athena Workman presents June 19th Etsybloggers Blog Carnival posted at the weblog of artist athena workman.

Erika presents Carried Away by a Mosquito posted at NICO* Designs.

Five O'Clock Somewhere presents Summertime!?! posted at Five O'Clock Somewhere.

MagdaleneJewels presents Carnival: Summer Memories posted at MagdaleneJewels's Blogs.

lazytcrochet presents Summer Time posted at LazyTcrochet.

HomeMadeOriginals presents Summer's Here....Or is it? posted at Home Made Originals.

Margaret Freije presents Summertime....back in the day.... posted at Splendid Little Stars

Sandi Myers presents Another year older and still going strong! – The T-Shirt Lady posted at The T-Shirt Lady

miesmama presents summertime and the living is easy! posted at miesmama.

Melissa Meman presents School's out for Summer! posted at Pink Zinnias.

Linda Wheelock presents Summer in Vermont posted at Spotted Cow Soaps.

Stacey presents Free Family Film Fest posted at Elle Belle.

Amanda presents My Blackadder birthday posted at Dragon's Den.

dizzydragonflies presents The Story of Grape Kool Aid and 2 at a time socks posted at dizzydragonflies.

Edi presents Summer's Here-Blog Carnival Entry posted at Memories for Life Scrapbooks.

Linda presents Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bug! posted at Pruitt Handcrafts.

Lisa Lien presents Carnival Blog - Summers Here! posted at Jewelry Delicacies

HBIC presents Summertime posted at Home Deconomics.

Andrea presents Summertime, Summertime, Sum, Sum, Summertime posted at Rock-a-Baby Clothing Co..

Tammy presents tamdoll's workspace: Summer Birthdays posted at tamdoll's workspace.

Jen (bfbeads) of Baby Friendly Beads presents 37 - 85 - 4 - 5 - 104 - 80 - 170 - 24 -21 - 1 posted at Mama's Magic.

pesky33 presents Birthdays posted at Life's Big Canvas.

Elayne Teitelbaum presents A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose Is A ....Rose? posted at ChezChani.

PurrPrints presents The big three (uh-)oh posted at PurrPrints: Art, Cats, and Randomness

Jimena presents June's THE month... posted at Panoptica.

Now let's go visit our teammates blogs and read this edition of the EtsyBloggers Blog Carnival!

Technorati tags: etsybloggers, blog carnival.

Synesthesia

The-worst-is-over-but-there's-still-a-lot-to-come blog review

The Lady Noire Affair

Dior's new series is amazing. Starring Marion Cotillard, it is an 8 minute film noir in youtube. It's supposed to be continued... Can't wait!

Little Things That Matter

I was included in this beautiful treasury by La Vieja Tun Tun.

Greed- fake perfume ad

Cities are not the problem: they are the solution

Cities are one of my passions, so my recent urbanistic posting is just a little of it. Here's one of my favorite TED talks of all time with Jaime Lerner. His approach to the city is quite creative and fresh, even though he's being doing it for years now.
The video is so funny too...

Dover Sampler: Medieval Illustrations and Art Deco Posters

My birthday present to myself

Just bought this beautiful dress from Etsy... I had been wanting it for a long time and finally got the money. I could have saved it but it was tooooooooooootally impulse buying... plus it's my birthday present for myself. Sadly, it won't get here on time for Tuesday.

For more super cool stuff like this, go to Vital's shop on etsy.

Quote: Willa Cather

The end is nothing; the road is all.

-Willa Cather

High Line Urbanism

Beautiful public spaces are always a treat. Maybe not the best urbanistic approach to bettering a city, but a treat nonetheless.
New York's High Line was recently transformed, and it is definitely a beautiful space within the city. And for more before pictures like the one above, go here...

And this is how it looks now:

Beautiful Randomness

German artist Daniel Becker created this images based on random math phenomena. I think they are amazing and so beautiful in themselves; then you think about the math behind it, and they are even more beautiful and intriguing.

To see all the others, and read the explanations go to Random Walk

The Manifesto of the Cloud Appreciation Society

WE BELIEVE that clouds are unjustly maligned
and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them.
cloud

We think that they are Nature’s poetry,

and the most egalitarian of her displays, since
everyone can have a fantastic view of them.
cloud

We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it.
Life would be dull if we had to look up at

cloudless monotony day after day.
cloud

We seek to remind people that clouds are expressions of the
atmosphere’s moods, and can be read like those of
a person’s countenance.
cloud

Clouds are so commonplace that their beauty is often overlooked.
They are for dreamers and their contemplation benefits the soul.
Indeed, all who consider the shapes they see in them will save
on psychoanalysis bills.
cloud

And so we say to all who’ll listen:
Look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and live life with your head in the clouds!

Seed bombing

Another guerrilla gardening resource: seed bombs. Here's a tutorial in the LA Times. And then of course you can plant them in style...

Dover Sampler: 1930s fashion and Toulouse Lautrec

Governor's Island Style

Every year on the first days of June, there's a real cool Jazz Age Lawn Party in Governor's Island in New York. I want to go sooooo bad. I'm obsessed. But how can you not be?? They have: Charleston and Peabody dance lessons, croquet games sponsored by the New York Croquet Club, tug of war games, a pie contest, 1920's motorcars on exhibit, a Bathing Beauties and Gents Vintage Swimsuit Parade, and couture milliners.
Here are pics by The Sartorialist